Example sentences of "[verb] been going [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the company has been going since around 1980 , for a long while it concentrated on research and development projects for other companies : this approach stems from its roots as an offshoot of the University of Colorado . |
| 2 | Cotte ( pp. 71 – 2 ) distinguishes two main senses of let , the first of which is described as " the non-intervention of an agent in an action which has been initiated independently of him/her and has been going on already for a certain time " , and can be illustrated by : ( 214 ) He would n't even dance with her at Gavin 's party . |
| 3 | Today 's decline in the fertility rate does not have as superstitious , or short-lived , a cause : it has been going on steadily since 1970 . |
| 4 | Now the District Council have taken a lot of money off this town , over the market stalls now , for a number of years , and I believe if they 're going to do a scheme like this which has been going on now for over eight years , it should be done all in one go . |
| 5 | After all , evolution has been going on now for about four billion years as far as we know and there are n't very many long-lived organisms . |
| 6 | Batty , speaking on Leeds clubcall , said yesterday : ‘ The speculation has been going on now for a couple of years . |
| 7 | ( It has been going on successfuly with Irish Rail and the Dublin Dart for years ) . |
| 8 | The debate about the vulnerability of land-based missiles has been going on so long that a few cynics have begun to wonder if it matters all that much . |
| 9 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 10 | While the weight of the waste we all throw away has been going down slightly over the last twenty years , ( because things like glass , plastic bottles and cans have become thinner ) , the volume of waste has been rising . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted . |
| 12 | We were so easy with each other , we could have been going out together . |
| 13 | In the bigger world , the GATT talks seem to have been going on forever , with Downing Street promising for two years that the end was in sight . |
| 14 | She did n't have to ask if Christine knew what had been going on here . |
| 15 | The enclosure of open fields into the smaller fields that form our familiar world today , and the reclamation of the wild lands , had been going on intermittently and at a varying pace in every century . |
| 16 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 17 | Quite a lot of the clean-up work had been going on apace of the actual stripdown of the engine so when the latter was finished , the former was not far behind . |
| 18 | All right , O.K. , he had been going on long enough on these lines . |
| 19 | But he strenuously denied that anything of the sort had been going on anywhere in Europe around the time of the Lockerbie disaster . |
| 20 | Like him , lying underneath that mini … his heart had been going overtime then , thinking of the law closing down on him . |
| 21 | Everything had been going swimmingly only a moment before . |
| 22 | If Leslie had been going too fast the others would have told him to slow down . |
| 23 | Johnny had been going too fast and had slipped , badly cutting his knee . |
| 24 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
| 25 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 26 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 27 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 28 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 29 | He had been going out intermittently with our Corporal Jane , who was beginning to get very excited about him , and I must admit he was very good-looking . |
| 30 | Right , I think we 've been going on long enough and I think you 've been sitting there long enough , ha |